The top 10 NFL games to watch during the 2025 season

With apologies to the NFL’s biggest international schedule of all time and its early-week rollout, the games that football fans really need to see will be played on American soil.And they were announced Wednesday as part of the release of every team’s full schedule.Time to start picking a winner for all 272 games and projecting playoff teams.Keeping in mind playoff rematches, marquee players facing their old teams and star quarterback duels, here are 10 must-see matchups (excluding Jets and Giants games) for the 2025 season.Alas, it would be easier to pick 10 if free agent Aaron Rodgers would just make up his mind on his future and the Browns would decide soon whether rookie Shedeur Sanders is going to be a starter with grudges to bury, but there’s still plenty to entertain.After the Chiefs beat the Eagles in the 2023 Super Bowl, the Eagles came back the next season and beat the Chiefs.This time, it will be the Chiefs looking to exact a small measure of revenge after their loss to the Eagles in this past Super Bowl.

Andy Reid is the winningest coach in both franchises’ histories.It would be better if this game were in Minnesota, but it’s still Sam Darnold’s chance to make the Vikings regret letting him leave for Seattle after a Pro Bowl season in which he went 14-3.The Vikings chose J.J.

McCarthy — who has never played in an NFL game and is coming off of two knee surgeries — over keeping Darnold.Maybe this game will be Rodgers’ first against the franchise he led for 18 seasons and the successor (Jordan Love) he mentored.If he ever signs with the sitting-on-their-hands Steelers, that is.

The game would be more emotional if played at Lambeau Field, but it is still a rare matchup between two flagship franchises.With apologies to Caleb Williams and Drake Maye, the best two rookie quarterbacks last season were Bo Nix and Jayden Daniels.This is their first NFL meeting — in a long-ago Super Bowl rematch of two past-due upstart teams.

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